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Perram Named AFIT Distinguished Professor

Posted Monday, November 01, 2021

 

 
Lieutenant General James Hecker, commander and president of Air University (left) presents Dr. Glen P. Perram with the AFIT Distinguished Professor Award on July 28, 2021. Also pictured on right is Chief Master Sergeant Randy Kwiatkowski, Command Chief Master Sergeant for Air University. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)


By: Stacy Burns, Air Force Institute of Technology

 

Dr. Glen P. Perram, Professor of Physics at AFIT’s Graduate School of Engineering and Management, was awarded the honorary title of Distinguished Professor on July 28, 2021. The title of Distinguished Professor is reserved for individuals who have displayed exceptional, lifelong performance and achievement as a faculty member.

A summary of performance criteria and expectations for this honorary title are outstanding and sustained accomplishments as demonstrated by: nationally or internationally recognized research accomplishments, outstanding teaching performance, outstanding service to the
Institute and profession, effective mentorship and development of junior faculty, and recognition received through national or international honors.

“Distinguished professorship is the pinnacle of our professoriate. Dr. Glen Perram’s accomplishment, as a distinguished professor, is a manifestation of what I expect in our faculty in the pursuit of our education mission for the US Air Force and Space Force. I am proud of him and I cite him as a benchmark for those who will come after him,” Graduate School of Engineering and Management dean Dr. Adedeji Badiru said.

Perram arrived at AFIT as an Assistant Professor in 1989 after a tour of duty as Chief of the Visible Chemical Laser Section at Kirtland AFB. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1992 and served as the Deputy Department Head until 1996. In 1996 Perram was promoted to Full Professor, he served as Associate Dean for Research from 1998 to 1999, and was the Director for the Center for Directed Energy from 2000 to 2005.

Over the past 30 years, Perram has built a nationally and internationally recognized research program that has focused on the development of high power laser systems, and remote sensing and spectroscopy of energetic events. He created AFIT’s first research center, the Center for Directed Energy, and served as the first Center Director from 2000 to 2005. Perram’s research program has generated 105 journal articles, 110 conference proceedings, over 150 additional conference presentations, eight technical reports, four book chapters and one textbook. His archival publications appear in top tier journals and are highly cited, with three publications garnering over 100 citations each. Perram has been the principle investigator for 50 research grants valued at more than $26M, and his research program has generated 51 MS and 36 PhD degrees, supported 23 undergraduate interns, four postdoctoral researchers and four research faculty.

As a professor at AFIT, Perram has taught 99 offerings of 24 different courses and has mentored 51 MS and 36 PhD students. In addition, he led the development and teaching of a laser weapons short course that became sought after by AF organizations across the country. Perram continues to serve as an important mentor to his students. As a retired Lieutenant Colonel, Perram has been able to provide both academic and military guidance to officers that are working with him, and has guided many of his students on to be very successful AFRL scientists and leaders.

Perram’s extensive service to his profession also has been widely recognized. He served as Chair from 2003 to 2005 for the Modeling and Simulation Conference given by the Directed Energy Professional Society and was a member of the NATO SAS-140 Panel on Directed Energy from 2018 to 2020, as well as a member of the Review Panel for the LLNL DPAL Program in 2012, 2015 and 2017. He was also Chair of the Technical Area Working Group on Modeling and Simulation of High Energy Lasers for the Joint Technology Office from 2002 to 2006, and was the Program Manager for the Missile Defense Agency, SBIR Program on Chemical Lasers from 2002 to 2003.

Perram’s remarkable accomplishments in research, teaching, mentorship and service to the community have resulted in an impressive list of awards. Most recently in 2020, Dr. Perram became a fellow of the Optical Society of America. In 2013, he was recognized as the Air Force Outstanding Senior Civilian Scientist. His hyperspectral imaging team won the Air Force Science and Engineering, Exploratory Team Award in 2010, the Center for Directed Energy (that he founded and led from 2000 to 2005) won the US Air Force Modeling and Simulation Award for Planning in 2007. Dr. Perram became a Fellow of the Directed Energy Professional Society in 2007, and he won the Bernard A. Schriever Award, Advancing Aerospace Power in 1995, and the Gage H. Crocker Award, Institute Outstanding Professor in 1993.
 

 

 

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